NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 October 1922, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

By Maecenas. 1 The spring fixture of the Dunedin Jockey Club opens to-morrow (Thursday) and concludes on Saturday. | The Masterton Racing Club will hold their meeting on Friday and Saturday next, - * | Balrymena's backers shou*d be pre- ; pared to take a short price about that j youngster in the McLean Stakes at Dunedin. Ballymena is well seasoned. Awake has again joined C. Jae%|on's team, but may not be ready for some time yet. j A half brother by Bisogne to Awake •5X atJE>resent being fed by Mr. Washer. He is described as being remarkably i nice in looks. I The Hhancial barometer is on the j rise, in the South Island, if the totalisator is any indication, (and it un- ■ doubtedly is), as the' Kurow and j Oamaru meetings each showed an in- • creased turnover. i On the form displayed at Marton and , Wanganui meetings, Prosperity is not !as good^ as some would have us be--1 llf ve, i^d although opposed by a lot iof moderates in the Dunedin Guineas, prosperity will have to show improved form to win. j Counterstroke is very well just now, and it would be no surprise if the Ciiokebore representative showed up i Pro-minently at the Dunedin meeting i Mr. Geo. Currie was unlucky enough to lose a full brother to Thespian, the youngster dying soon after being foaled. & Kyoto won so decisively at Otaki ! that it would not be surprising should he be sent out favourite in the High i We^t* at Mast«*ton on Friday ! When not quite ready Miss Ren© , won like a good one at Otaki, and de- ! spite a good rise in weight should be prominent at Masterton on Friday Uleaborg may be most troublesome In Bonnetter and Tenterfield, Mr. Kemball holds a strong hand in the Masterton Cup, and it * m f* ££ rt J hl bert of the Pair not prove hard to beat in the event. Deucalion's half brother Kilbird showed promising form at Hastings, ■tf^M W^ved on at Masterton . should make the gelding hard to beat. I ll3| may give most trouble i H fciS UaV<? Ta? a- fine race when h-e "finished second in the Hawke's Bay Guineas run m 1.40. Should the son 'on ¥^\ WOdn% at Masterton on Friday he would give his supporters abfe^oient KoSetisWsffiOStf--d-m,Un hen f w a<f A^ fell a* the 1«* jump^ at Hastings last week, he fractured his shoulder and had to be det IrM; T^f iSJ Udeed